Summa Psychonautica: Suggestions From A Very, Very, Very Old Friend

Suggestions From A Very, Very, Very Old Friend

Be suspicious of anyone who keeps telling you who they are, because they’re trying to control your story about them.

Be doubly suspicious of anyone who keeps telling you who you are, because they’re trying to control your story about you.

Be good, but don’t be well-behaved. The two are mutually exclusive in this world.

Hold your beliefs loosely, but not so loosely that they can be knocked from your hand by anyone with a loud voice and a sense of entitlement.

Be open and engaging with people, but also be aware that sociopaths exist.

Be skeptical, but not so skeptical that you can’t climb into an idea and try it on as though it were true.

Be funny, but don’t use it as a defense mechanism. If you have to choose between being funny and feeling hurt, choose to feel.

Whether you realize it or not, you are choosing between authenticity and inauthenticity in each instant. Become more conscious of those choices.

Know that everyone is exactly as lost and clueless as you are. Some are just better at feigning confidence than others, and some few have grown comfortable in their cluelessness.

Minds are great for writing code and inventing new tools and weapons, but they are worthless for answering life’s biggest questions.

The best way to meditate is to sit still and relinquish anything that thinks it knows how to meditate.

The best way to find yourself is to non-conceptually examine the nature of that search.

There is a common notion that a good romantic partner will “keep you in check” and “keep you grounded”. This is bullshit. A good romantic partner lifts you up and trusts you to fly.

Life is naturally breathtakingly beautiful. Appreciating that beauty is a skill you can develop.

The more you learn to appreciate life’s beauty, the more it will show off for you, like a street performer who suddenly realizes he has an audience.

Ease and happiness are natural. Struggle and suffering are artificial. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.

Your own true north, your true inner guidance, will always lead you away from old patterns.

Clear seeing is the total absence of all manipulation.

Be shamelessly beautiful.

Be louder than the sociopaths.

Trust yourself.

Make art.

Make love.

Pay more attention to the clitoris.

Have fun.

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It’s terribly tempting to want to feed the hungry proletariat the meal they desire. But each of those comics you mention have all made me laugh hard. Much of late night comedy now sadly is remarkably interchangeable. Don’t despair https://t.co/MePoHPzcJq

@RobSchneider This is exactly why I reserve a special hatred for comedians like Bill Maher, Steve Colbert, Samantha Bee and Trevor Noah who sell their talent to the churning out of propaganda for establishment power structures. https://t.co/vTVPNe3kU8

Excerpt from "Mainstream 'Centrists' Pose The Greatest Ideological Threat To Us All":

People like Ashton Kutcher imagine that the so-called “center” is called that because it sits smack dab in the middle of the ideological spectrum between communism and fascism, right in that moderate sweet spot that respects capitalism and private ownership without flying off the deep end into Nazi-like tyranny. In reality, the status quo exists entirely outside any left-right paradigm. It’s neither “left” nor “right” to give total control of the western world to an alliance of plutocrats and opaque government agencies who seek to expand their power and wealth by destroying our ecosystem, waging endless wars, and gradually shoring up more and more control of their citizenry via internet censorship, surveillance and police militarization. It’s just crazy.

I’m picking on Ashton not because he occupies some special place in all this, but because he doesn’t. He’s just an illustration of how blind people have become to the real threat that’s right in front of them, and how normalized insanity has become.

People who identify as “left” see the ruling power establishment as right-wing, people who identify as “right” see the ruling power establishment as left-wing, and people who identify as “center” see themselves as moderates whose normal, healthy way of life is under threat by the “far right” and “far left”. But really all that’s happening is a few assholes fucking over everyone else, which is no more “left” or “right” than a terrorist attack. The left versus right argument doesn’t even make sense until this far more pressing issue has been resolved. A Bernie supporter and a Trump supporter are arguing about left versus right while trapped in a room with a tiger who’s eating them both alive.